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John Liang is managing editor of InsideDefense and Inside Missile Defense. He has been with the IWP Defense Group since 1997. He holds a master's degree in international policy studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a bachelor's degree in languages from Georgetown University.
Members of the Pentagon's Business Initiative Council have approved two more broad sets of initiatives -- potentially worth more than $100 million in annual savings -- designed to improve business operations across the Defense Department and enhance support to the warfighter, DOD announced today.
Alliant Techsystems yesterday announced major changes to its senior leadership following the sudden resignation of company President Scott Meyers.
After searching more than 100 caves and houses, U.S. and coalition forces operating in Afghanistan have yet to find evidence that the al Qaeda terrorist network has developed weapons of mass destruction, the commander-in-chief of U.S. forces in the region said today.
The Pentagon earlier this month notified Congress of a possible foreign military sale of up to $255 million worth of Harpoon missiles and Close-In Weapon System guns for Egypt's fast missile boats.
Shares of TRW stock soared 26 percent on the New York Stock Exchange today, following the announcement of Northrop Grumman's proposal to merge the two companies.
Making defense contractors more agile in the way they develop weapon systems is a critical issue facing the defense industry, several senior industry executives said this week.
The Defense Department is looking to broaden the defense industrial base to support its transformation efforts, a senior Pentagon official said today.
NEW YORK -- Raytheon is still waiting for the South Korean government to decide whether it wants to buy Patriot PAC-2 missiles, the company's chairman and chief executive officer said this week.
NEW YORK -- Northrop Grumman's chairman and chief executive officer said yesterday that his company was in "active" discussions with rival shipbuilder General Dynamics on swapping billions of dollars worth of shipbuilding work involving the construction of LPD-17 amphibious dock ships and DDG-51 destroyers.
The Army and Missile Defense Agency postponed a test of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile until Feb. 16 after a target malfunctioned in an attempt today, the service announced.
NEW YORK -- Northrop Grumman plans to finish most of the integration of Newport News Shipbuilding by this fall, the company's chairman and chief executive officer said yesterday.
NEW YORK -- The chief executive officer of Boeing's Military Aircraft and Missile Systems business unit said yesterday the Comanche program would be delayed in reaching its initial operating capability date by one year.
New York -- A senior Boeing executive said today he is pessimistic about his company's chances for any substantial work on the Joint Strike Fighter program.
Even though the Bush administration's $379 billion fiscal year 2003 defense budget request is the largest in more than a decade, House Armed Services research and development subcommittee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) doesn't think it's enough.
The U.S. military must maintain a balanced fleet of short- and long-range strike aircraft to give it the flexibility to undertake a variety of missions, the commander-in-chief of U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee today.
The United States and Canada will sign an agreement tomorrow committing Canada to participate in the Joint Strike Fighter System development and demonstration phase, the Pentagon announced today.
The Missile Defense Agency should increase the amount of research and development money available for small businesses, a pair of senators has told the Pentagon.
Lockheed Martin remains atop the list of the Pentagon's largest contractors, a Defense Department official told InsideDefense.com today.
The State Department is asking lawmakers for a $457 million antiterrorism increase to its fiscal year 2003 foreign military financing account, senior department officials said yesterday.
The Bush administration should move some of the $7.8 billion it has requested for missile defense to other, more needy defense programs, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee said today.